In August of the first year of the reorganization, two full months later, the team of the indigenous coalition army followed Li Tianyang's suggestion and returned to Jilong Harbor, where there were more than 41,000 indigenous captives.

In order to keep an eye on this huge group of captives, Li Tianyang had to mobilize the Penghu Sailors and the Whale Division's soldiers, and at the same time open a huge clearing in a valley north of Jilong Harbor as a place to hold this group of indigenous prisoners.

The only thing that made Li Tianyang happy was that until the return of the coalition army, this group of captives and natives, numbering as many as 40,000, did not cause much trouble to Hongmen, and even some commotion rarely occurred.

This may have something to do with the habitual living environment and habits of the indigenous tribes, after all, the annexation and annexation between these indigenous tribes is already commonplace, maybe they were still enemies a moment ago, but when they were annexed and exterminated, they can quickly integrate into their new identity, and they will not think about revenge for their former tribe.

This is the lack of culture, bringing no sense of belonging and centripetal force, if it is placed in the Chinese ethnic groups, if you really want to completely conquer a nation, it will take at least two generations of efforts.

In this jungle, it is similar to the nomadic peoples on the grassland, although there are Pingpu, Gaoshan, Ami, Paiwan and other ethnic groups, but after they are really captured and conquered, they can also get along harmoniously.

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that when Hongmen treated these captives, they did not lack their food, so that they could barely get the food they needed for daily life.

The attitude towards food is the same as that of the indigenous tribes along the east coast who were first in contact with the Hongmen when they first came to contact Sau.

In their eyes, the most intuitive feeling of whether a tribe is strong or not is to see whether their clan members can eat enough, whether they have enough surplus food and a wide hunting ground.

Hongmen obviously met the requirements of these tribal captives for the existence of a powerful tribe, although they didn't know how big this unknown powerful tribe's hunting ground was to support such a large and powerful army, just to support these sympathetic and countless companions around them now, they couldn't figure out how much food this powerful tribe would consume in a day to feed them.

Although the taste and variety of these grains were very different from the food that their tribe had always eaten, they were still conquered by the wealth of Hongmen.

Maybe it's not a bad thing to follow such a powerful tribe, at least your family doesn't have to go hungry every day!

It was this thought, and the fact that these captive tribesmen obediently stayed in the territory divided by Hongmen, quietly waiting for the unknown fate to come.

The return of the coalition forces made Li Tianyang breathe a sigh of relief, but he also began to worry about how to transport this huge number of prisoners to Bengang next.

Now the idle sea ships in Hongmen, together with the warships of the Hongtang fleet in Hongmen, are only more than 100 ships, which is still thanks to the sea ships left in Jilong Harbor after the defeat of Zheng Zhilong Feilong Gang in the Battle of Jilong Harbor last year!

After nearly a year of selection and sorting, a large part of the sea ships were either sold by Hongmen to maritime merchants or other teams, or dismantled by Hongmen to extract useful parts as raw materials for "Yang Fan" warships.

The rest of the ships that have been retained by Hongmen are naturally the best sea ships, plus the original warships of Hongmen, and now Hongmen still retains nearly 150 warships of 400 materials, as well as the scale of 25 "Yang Fan" warships.

However, Hongmen's territory is also vast now, and if there are no more hidden dangers like the previous Flying Dragon Gang, Li Tianyang must always ensure that there are enough ships cruising and patrolling in his sea area to show their existence in Hongmen.

Therefore, every day in the southeast, north, and west of the South China Sea, there are at least one or two fleets patrolling to defend their Hongmen territory.

Fortunately, the captives of the Hongmen and Laike tribes can be distributed on the spot in Jilong Harbor, almost one seventh of the people can be distributed to each family, and the two families can almost get about 11,000 people, and then counting the grain and grass consumed by Hongmen, the cost of the ships paid, etc., Hongmen can also get about 2,000 people, which means that almost 13,000 people do not need to be transported to Bengang, and there is a great transportation burden.

Anyway, the preferred population of Hongmen is either those tribal orphans who have no parents, or those who have no men in the family and widows with children with oil bottles, these are all burdensome existences in the eyes of the alliance members, but they also let Li Tianyang ask for more than 2,000 people so that they have no complaints.

Lake. Patton personally led people to the chicken coop harbor to pick up the more than 5,000 people and 1,000 captives back, and with the 1,000 people they threw into the coalition army, after losing hundreds of people, it was really difficult to escort so many people on the road!

Even if there were more than 13,000 people missing, the remaining 28,000 people let Li Tianyang and them transport them three or four times in a row before they could be regarded as transporting them to Bengang, and then Li Tianyang breathed a sigh of relief and sent this hot potato away.

Although the burden on Bengang's side was also very large, after the leaders of the various tribes learned of this harvest, they had already sent people to Bengang to meet their warriors who had returned with a full load.

The distribution of the remaining captives went smoothly, with Hongmen on the side carrying out the distribution work fairly and responsibly, and Li Tianyang promised that there would be the next East Coast sweeping operation soon, so everyone did not make that ugly situation.

As for the corpses of the soldiers of the various tribes who died in battle, there was no need for Li Tianyang to worry about them, and the leaders of their various tribes had their own leaders to appease their bereaved families.

Although the indigenous warriors fighting in the jungle are fierce, for the Hongmen soldiers who have long been prepared and are accustomed to fighting with the array, unless it is a surprise sneak attack, the general battle really can't hurt them much.

In the end, it was reported to Li Tianyang to the list of the dead, and there were only about 30 people, which can be said to be a drop in the bucket compared to Hongmen's harvest.

Most of the captives were placed in the Jilongshan Mine and Da'an Port by Li Tianyang, and most of the remaining prisoners were women and children who had no main labor force.

Among these people, the women were kept in custody to help the Jilonggang workshop produce products and learn Chinese at the same time; And those children were directly sent by Li Tianyang to the school specially established for them to learn Chinese culture and receive Chinese education.

(End of chapter)